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I'm currently too busy in real life to handle the day-to-day operations of Wikipedia
(That does not necessarily mean that I have completely stopped reading Wikipedia, checking my talk page, or making occasional edits. It's time permitting in my real life.)
This user is no longer very active on Wikipedia as of January 2020.

Mike Hasenfratz

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Hi. Can you remove the PC protection from Mike Hasenfratz? He is now deceased and there have been infrequent uses since it was applied. (CC) Tbhotch™ 21:57, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done Zzyzx11 (talk) 14:05, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

2025 Stanley Cup Finals

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No rush on this, though when you have time can you look through the current redirect of this article and make sure that I didn't miss anything that we would normally need? Deadman137 (talk) 23:43, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I see that you already notified the author of Draft:2025 Stanley Cup Finals about that. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (talk) 09:47, 17 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I have now performed a WP:HISTMERGE of the versions existing in both the mainspace and the draftspace after another editor reverted your edits on grounds that the existing draft article should be improved first, rather than simultaneously having a version in the mainspace with hidden article text and a redirect. Zzyzx11 (talk) 01:56, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Stanley Cup Final RfC/RM consensus

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Hi there, when possible, can you please update Template:Editnotices/Page/Stanley Cup Finals with the new consensus from Talk:Stanley Cup Finals#RfC/RM on "Final" vs "Finals"? It's only editable by admins, page-movers, and template editors. The change could be something like this. Thanks. Left guide (talk) 02:47, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Unless there are further edit wars attempting to restore the "s", I do not see a need to keep the notices at all, either on those editnotices themselves or the {{notice}} on the various talk pages. And if someone asks, I would be open to remove the move protection now, but that seems to be low priority compared to outdated notices. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (talk) 09:34, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:Synthespians.jpg

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Some stroopwafels for you!

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Greetings, Zzyzx11!

Thanks for making the edit on the Interstate 405 (California) article. As I wanted to add the fact that the 405 had the longest HOV lane in the state, I had trouble deciding where the information should go and squarely added it on the Route Description section. I like that you renamed a section to fit it more with the content and slightly rephrased it, thus improving the quality of the information. Very clever. Here's to high-quality stroopwafels for your contribution! Nebulous2357 (talk) 07:15, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Stroopwafels

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Shane Line:

Greetings, @Zzyzx11!

Thanks for making the List of SpongeBob SquarePants episodes (seasons 11-present) article. As I wanted to add the fact that the seasons 11-onwards episodes have the newest version in the series, I had trouble deciding where the information should go and squarely added it on the Season 11 section. I like that you renamed a section to fit it more with the content and slightly rephrased it, thus improving the quality of the information. Very clever. Here's to high-quality stroopwafels for your contribution! 

2600:1700:7A50:9C0:5DD7:8ED7:79CE:CC5F (talk) 00:55, 27 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I really only did that because List of SpongeBob SquarePants episodes (seasons 1–10) was originally split by someone else in 2020. I have now been advised via the guidelines on Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Television § Article splitting to refrain from splitting any further TV episode articles until it reaches above the 50kB to 60kB size of readable prose (not just template and citation coding). For example, List of American Dad! episodes and List of Family Guy episodes are each single pages, and those shows currently have not reached their 25th seasons yet. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (talk) 07:54, 27 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Guide to temporary accounts

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Hello, Zzyzx11. This message is being sent to remind you of significant upcoming changes regarding logged-out editing.

Starting 4 November, logged-out editors will no longer have their IP address publicly displayed. Instead, they will have a temporary account (TA) associated with their edits. Users with some extended rights like administrators and CheckUsers, as well as users with the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will still be able to reveal temporary users' IP addresses and all contributions made by temporary accounts from a specific IP address or range.

How do temporary accounts work?

Editing from a temporary account
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    • There has to be a minimum of 10 minutes between subsequent temporary account creations from the same IP (or /64 range in case of IPv6).
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Temporary account IP viewer user right

How to enable IP Reveal

Impact for administrators

  • It will be possible to block many abusers by just blocking their temporary accounts. A blocked person won't be able to create new temporary accounts quickly if the admin selects the autoblock option.
  • It will still be possible to block an IP address or IP range.
  • Temporary accounts will not be retroactively applied to contributions made before the deployment. On Special:Contributions, you will be able to see existing IP user contributions, but not new contributions made by temporary accounts on that IP address. Instead, you should use Special:IPContributions for this (see a video about IPContributions in a gallery below).

Rules about IP information disclosure

  • Publicizing an IP address gained through TAIV access is generally not allowed (e.g. ~2025-12345-67 previously edited as 192.0.2.1 or ~2025-12345-67's IP address is 192.0.2.1).
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  • See Wikipedia:Temporary account IP viewer § What can and can't be said for more detailed guidelines.

Useful tools for patrollers

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  • Similarly, Special:GlobalContributions supports global search for a given temporary account's activity.
  • The auto-reveal feature (see video below) allows users with the right permissions to automatically reveal all IP addresses for a limited time window.

Videos

  • How to use Special:IPContributions
  • How automatic IP reveal works
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  • How to use User Info

Further information and discussion

Most of this message was written by Mz7 (source). Thanks, 🎃 SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 02:47, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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